NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES
NEW STREAMLINED APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE
-- Application Deadline is February 14 --
19th Annual Festival Runs August 14 - 30, 2015
The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest
multi-arts festival in North America, will present the 19th Annual
Festival from August 14 - 30, 2014. Each year the festival presents
programming by nearly 200 of the world's best emerging theatre troupes
and dance companies. General FringeNYC applications for 2015 are
currently being accepted for participants in all genres (theatre,
dance, puppetry, performance art, multi-media, etc.). Separate
FringeAL FRESCO (free outdoor events) and FringeJR (children's
programming) applications are also available.
Newly streamlined applications for the 2015 Festival are now available
online at www.fringenyc.org. Completed applications are due February
14, 2015. For the first time ever, applicants are able to upload their
cover letter, script and support materials and a $40 application fee
is now accepted via PayPal.
FringeNYC is a production of The Present Company, under the leadership
of Producing Artistic Director Elena K. Holy. Ms. Holy was just
selected as a "Person of the Decade" in nytheatre now's Indie Theater
Hall of Fame.
In 1997, New York City became the seventh US city to host a fringe
festival, joining Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Houston,
Orlando and San Francisco. FringeNYC has presented over 3000
performing groups representing every continent, prompting
Switzerland's national daily, The New Zurich Zeitung, to declare
FringeNYC as “the premiere meeting ground for alternative artists.”
FringeNYC has also been the launching pad for numerous Off-Broadway
and Broadway transfers, long-running downtown hits, and regional
theater productions including Urinetown, Matt & Ben, Never Swim Alone,
The Jammer, Debbie Does Dallas, Dog Sees God, Brandon Teena, Dixie’s
Tupperware Party, 21 Dog Years, The Irish Curse, Jurassic Parq, The
Fartiste, Silence! The Musical and 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche; movies
including WTC View and Armless; and even a TV show (‘da Kink in My
Hair). FringeNYC alumni include Bradley Cooper, Melissa Rauch (Big
Bang Theory), Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me, CNN's Inside Man), Mindy
Kaling, Tony Award winner Diane Paulus (Pippin), Alex Timbers (Rocky),
Leigh Silverman (Violet), W. Kamau Bell (Totally Biased), Michael Urie
(Ugly Betty), Naomi Grossman (American Horror Story) and Chris Lowell
(Enlisted), among countless other success stories.
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